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TV Confidential with Ed Robertson
TV CONFIDENTIAL: A radio talk show about television brings you lively conversations every week with the stars, writers, directors and other creative people behind the scenes of some of America's most popular shows. An engaging blend of talk and entertainment, TV Confidential often compares today's programs with those of the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s.
Episodes
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Tragic Death of Pete Duel
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonCharles Fox and the Theme to The Love Boat
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRegis Philbin and The Disney Christmas Parade
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDragnet and "The Big Little Jesus"
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Ed Asner Approached Playing Santa
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJimmy Durante, Jackie Vernon, and Frosty the Snowman
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Rankin-Bass Helped Create the Legend of Santa
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDragnet and "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas"
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Dick Van Dyke Embodied Everything About Rob Petrie
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonKnight Rider: A Show About a Character That Happened to Be a Car
TVC 670.1: Ed welcomes Nick Nugent, author of The Knight Rider Companion: Abridged Edition, everything you wanted to know about the classic TV series starring…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonSteve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography
TVC 670.2: Ed welcomes back film and television historian Steve Randisi (The Merv Griffin Show: The Inside Story, Behind the Crimson Cape: The Cinema of George…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow Dorothy McNulty Became Penny Singleton
TVC 670.3: Steve Randisi, author of Penny Singleton: A Biography, talks to Ed how about Singleton came to adopt her screen name; why Singleton had a lot of the…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonStefanie Powers: Rebel, Visionary, and An Agent of Change
TVC 670.4: Ed welcomes back Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC, 1979-1984), and the founder and…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonStefanie Powers, Harold Gould, and St. Pope John Paul II
TVC 671.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Stefanie Powers, the actress known around the world as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart (ABC…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy The Sopranos is a Work of Art
TVC 670.5: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ray Richmond, author of The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History, a twenty-fifth anniversary…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhat James Gandolfini Brought to The Sopranos
TVC 670.6: From June 2013: Jennifer Armstrong, former staff writer for Entertainment Weekly and the author of many books on popular television, joins Ed, Tony…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRod Serling, Mike Wallace, and Dick Cavett
TVC 669.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began on our last program with Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and author Joseph Dougherty…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRod Serling and the Night Gallery Conundrum
TVC 669.2: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar," the first-season episode of Rod Serling's…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRod Serling: An Author of Television
TVC 669.3: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks about the opportunity he once had to adapt Rod Serling's live television drama The Velvet…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Sopranos: A Cultural Phenomenon
TVC 669.4: Ed welcomes back Ray Richmond, longtime television critic and entertainment reporter for such trade publications as The Hollywood Reporter and Daily…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Lives and Legacy of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
TVC 669.5: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you special audio highlights of the opening night ceremony for Happy Trails, a new…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRoy Rogers, Dale Evans, and The Lone Ranger
TVC 669.6: Via remote from The Hollywood Museum: TV Confidential brings you more highlights of the opening night ceremony for Happy Trails, the new exhibit at…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy CBS was originally nervous about A Charlie Brown Christmas
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonNorman Lear and "The Draft Dodger"
Thursday, Dec. 5 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of television icon Norman Lear. TV Confidential marks the occasion by bringing you this "Blast…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Blast from the Past: Barbara Feldon
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TV CONFIDENTIAL trailer
Television is one of the few things that we have in common. Just about all of us has a favorite show that we either grew up watching or binge-watch today, or a…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Blast from the Past: Norma Maldonado
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Blast from the Past: Julie Newmar
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Blast from the Past: Charles Grodin
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TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Evergreen Christmas Tree
TVC 668.1: Ed welcomes actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer, author Jimmy Byrge, and actress and producer Patricia Riley. Jimmy is the author of The…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonTribute to Ric Ocasek
TVC 668.2: From November 2019: Tony Figueroa remembers Ric Ocasek, the front man of The Cars, with a particular focus on the iconic video "You Might Think,"…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow "You Might Think" Impacted Music Videos, Movies, and TV
TVC 668.3: From November 2019: Tony and Ed talk about how the award-winning video "You Might Think" by The Cars—the first music video to use computer…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRod Serling at 100
TVC 668.4: Ed welcomes back Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, director, and author Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, A Screenwriters…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy The Twilight Zone is Literature in Every Sense of the Word
TVC 668.5: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about how The Twilight Zone operates on an ethical and moral universe (for the most…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Rod Serling's The Loner is a "work in progress"
TVC 668.6: Joseph Dougherty, author of Rod Serling at 100, talks to Ed about "Dust," "Mr. Denton on Doomsday," "Mr. Garrity and the Graves," and other…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHappy Birthday, Ed Asner
TVC 667.1: From November 2014: Tony, Donna, and Ed wish legendary actor Ed Asner a Happy Birthday as part of This Week in TV History. Ed Asner passed away on…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonDavid Koenig, author of Unshot Columbo
TVC 667.2: Ed welcomes back Columbo historian David Koenig (Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective). David's latest book, Unshot…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy Peter Falk was Uncomfortable with Female Murderers on Columbo
TVC 667.3: David Koenig, author of Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got Filmed, talks to Ed about how "Old-Fashioned Murder," the sixth-season…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Cathartic Effect of Hogan's Heroes
TVC 667.4: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, and the author of My UnHollywood…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonWhy "Closure" is a Newsroom Term
TVC 667.5: Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, talks to Ed about how he learned a lot about interviewing people from talking to his…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Columbo That Peter Falk Desperately Wanted to Make
TVC 666.6: David Koenig, author of Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV's Rumpled Detective and Unshot Columbo: Cracking the Cases That Never Got…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonA Backstage Look at SNL
TVC 666.1: From October 2014: Ed welcomes Doug Hill and Jeffrey Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, everything…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Chaos Behind the Scenes of SNL
TVC 666.2: From October 2014: Doug Hill and Jeffrey Weingrad, co-authors of Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, talk to Ed about the…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonCorinne Britti of Saturday Night
TVC 666.3: Ed welcomes actress, comedienne, and "puppet fabricator" Corinne Britti (Condor's Nest, For Sale). Corinne plays real-life 1970s comedienne Valri…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonRobert Crane, author of My UnHollywood Family
TVC 666.4: Ed welcomes back Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, and an accomplished screenwriter, journalist, and author in his own…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonThe Drive of Bob Crane
TVC 666.5: Robert Crane, eldest son of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, talks to Ed about how his dad was the "Willy Loman of his own career," why the failure of…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJames Sutorius, James Garner, and Angela Lansbury
TVC 665.6: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with James Sutorius, the award-winning stage actor who recently starred in My Life with Will: An…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow William Keck overcame his infamous past as a tabloid news reporter
TVC 665.1: Ed welcomes William Keck, longtime entertainment reporter for such publications as the National Enquirer, People, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonHow William Keck earned the trust of Nicole Brown Simpson's family
TVC 665.2: William Keck, author of When You Step Upon A Star: Cringeworthy Confessions of a Tabloid Bad Boy, tells Ed the back story of the outlandish lengths…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJames Sutorius: My Life with Will
TVC 665.5: Ed welcomes back James Sutorius, one of the most accomplished stage actors of our time, having starred on Broadway many times throughout his career…
TV Confidential with Ed RobertsonJames Sutorius on how Hamlet helped him overcome a stutter
TVC 665.6: Actor James Sutorius talks to Ed about seeing Richard Burton star as Hamlet on Broadway in 1964; how practicing the famous "To be or not to be"…
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Lindsay Bloom on how she approached playing Jean Harlow in Hughes and Harlow
TVC 664.1: Ed welcomes actress Lindsay Bloom (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Dallas, The Dukes of Hazzard) and renowned sixties film historian Tom Lisanti…
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Lindsay Bloom, Mike Hammer, and Dallas
TVC 664.2: Actress Lindsay Bloom (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Dallas, The Dukes of Hazzard) talks to Ed and Tom Lisanti about working with Stacy Keach and…
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Kathy Garver, Mr. Novak, and The Thalians
TVC 664.6: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome back Kathy Garver, the actress known around the world to three generations of television viewers as Cissy…
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Kathy Garver, Mrs. Beasley, and The Twilight Zone
TVC 664.6: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter talk to Kathy Garver about her involvement with some of the Mrs. Beasley merchandise now available from the…
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The South Philly roots of James Darren
TVC 663.1: Actor and author James Rosin joins Ed as TV Confidential remembers the life and career of singer/actor James Darren (The Time Tunnel, T.J. Hooker…
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James Darren, T.J. Hooker, and The Time Tunnel
TVC 663.2: Actor and author James Rosin (Philly Pop Rock Rhythm & Blues) talks to Ed about the television career of James Darren, including his starring roles…
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How James Darren came to play Vic Fontaine in Deep Space Nine
TVC 663.3: Actor and author James Rosin (Philly Pop Rock Rhythm & Blues) tells the back story of how James Darren came to play Vic Fontaine, the holographic…
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Alessandra Williams of Lissa's Trip
TVC 663.4: Award-winning actress, screenwriter, and director Alessandra Williams talks to Ed about being mentored by Martin Landau early in her career, when…
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Geri Jewell on being part of the legacy of Norman Lear
TVC 663.5: Ed welcomes back actress, author, and comedienne Geri Jewell (The Facts of Life, Deadwood, I'm Walking as Straight as I Can). Geri's latest book…
